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Show 114 John Tanner and His Family ing."!' cover Eliza was a good seamstress, and the lining in the wagon will help keep out the cold. Continuing for this same day, Eliza says: About 2 o'clock we started for camp, [Sugar Creek] where we arrived about sundown, prepared our tents, took some refreshments and retired for the night, but did not sleep much on account of the horses, we not being accustomed to their noises. [Horses do a lot of blow ing and snorting.] When we left Father Tanner's he gave us a few pounds of fresh beef, six or eight pounds of butter, some pork and some mince pies, and to father Huntington a fine calf, which he killed for veal. 12 Father Huntington and the former Sister Partridge had been at the John Tanner home about a week. This entry appears on Wednesday the eigtheenth: "Father Tanner and family came to camp and made a short visit. Albert Tanner brought a load of hay and some potatoes from his fathers.':" The camp at Sugar Creek was, by this time, filled with poorly pre pared emigrants. They were particularly short of hay and grain for the animals. It was nice to have a prosperous and generous farmer located near enough to the camp that hay and grain could be readily hauled to the needy campers. Too bad there were not men like this scattered all the way across the state. The plight of the Saints as they were forced from their homes in the wintry weather must have been of especial concern to John and his wife. On their visit to Sugar Creek, they were told that nine babies were born there on the first day of encampment, and more were arriving each day. Louisa Maria, daughter of John Tanner, was expecting her fourth child any day, and it was thought wise to have her remain in Nauvoo where she would have shelter and better care until after the baby arrived. Amasa M. Lyman was a member of the Twelve and was on call from the church leaders at any moment, which made his where abouts uncertain much of the time. Maria's baby arrived February 22, and was named for his father Amasa Mason Lyman. The mother made rapid recovery and joined the migrating Saints, and the baby survived and lived to the ripe age of ninety-one. Available sources fail to give the details of the departure of the Tanners from their Montrose home. The Biographical Encyclope- |
